Hi david and all, suggest best way to deal with Platt is only to respond to things he says that you agree with. That is best way to turn him around.
-KO 2009/1/10 david buchanan <[email protected]>: > > "Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to > the evolution of life." (Lila, 24) It really bothers me when Platt quotes > Pirsig to support his reactionary, talk-radio nonsense. This is just one of > the most recent examples. He dished it up as a response to accusations of > cultural chauvinism, as if moral judgments and chauvinism were the same > thing, or rather as if we can't tell the difference. If we are to judge > cultures according to the evolution of life, then we have to identify what > does and does not contribute to that ongoing process. There are at least two > crucial factors that will determine the soundness of any such judgement; an > adequate understanding of the situation in question and an understanding of > the MOQ's moral hierarchy. Basically, Platt has neither of these. He seems to > get his news from Fox and constantly demonstrates confusion about what is > social and what is intellectual and apparently this confusion has everything > to do with his chauvinism. He simply puts all the stuff he likes into the > intellectual category and the things he does not like are characterized as > social or biological. Most often it is only HIS ranking of things, not > Pirsig's. In my opinion, Platt is the least helpful MOQer of all time. He's > incorrigible. I'm astonished that anyone could hang around here for so long > without learning anything at all. And he doesn't seem to grade or morally > judge other cultures so much as he denigrates them in ditto-head, parrot-like > fashion. Can you, dear MOQer, tell the different between a cultural analysis > based on an evolutionary moral principle and one based on low-brow > patriotism? I can. It's one of the reasons I delete Platt's posts without > even reading them. If nobody responded I would see even less of them, which > would be fine with me. > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. > http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009 > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
